dehydrating oranges

Wife got a deal on some of the small cutie oranges and we can’t eat them all before they go bad so I was going to try dehydrating them. I peeled 6-8 of them and broke them into sections and put them in the dehydrator last night for 5 hours at 125 degrees. I had to pull them at 11pm so I could go to bed, but they weren’t done. Anyone know how long it takes to dehydrate them? I’m going to put them back in when I get home today. Google said 2-12 hours so that really narrowed it down

You might try to cut them crosswise to open up the sections. The sections are designed to hold in moisture and will hinder a quick drying process.

i dont think the vodka and/or tequila will dry up?????????

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You might try to cut them crosswise to open up the sections. The sections are designed to hold in moisture and will hinder a quick drying process.

This is very true.
Let us know how they turn out. I have dried navel oranges but they were not so tasty. I would think clemintines would be better.

The health nut person in me has got to ask, by dehydrating them are you essentially taking away a lot of the nutritious value of the fruit?

mnrabbit wrote:

The health nut person in me has got to ask, by dehydrating them are you essentially taking away a lot of the nutritious value of the fruit?

I don’t really care, my wife makes me eat fruit, I am just trying to make it easier on myself That being said, I doubt it, just removing the water I would guess.

I dried them for 5 more hours last night and they still aren’t ready. This is just an experiment, but I am not sure I’ll do it again unless I can run them for a 12 hours plus straight period.

Do what I do. I dug through our christmas decoration bins, and found a christmas light timer. I plug the timer into the outlet, then plug the dehydrator into that. I would imagine oranges are probably closer to 7-8 hours, they’re pretty much all water.